Company Towns : Corporate Order and Community /

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Neil White challenges the common interpretation of company towns as powerless, dependant communities by exploring how these settlements were altered at the local level through human agency, missteps, and chance.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: White, Neil, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2012
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Communaute > Études de cas.
Societes > Aspect social > Études de cas.
Communautes dependantes des ressources > Études de cas.
Social conditions
Resource-based communities.
Economic history.
Corporations > Social aspects.
Company towns.
Community life.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Community life > Case studies.
Corporations > Social aspects > Case studies.
Resource-based communities > Case studies.
Company towns > Case studies.
Queensland > Mount Isa.
Newfoundland and Labrador > Corner Brook.
Mount Isa (Qld.) > History.
Mount Isa (Qld.) > Social conditions.
Mount Isa (Qld.) > Economic conditions.
Corner Brook (N.L.) > History.
Corner Brook (N.L.) > Social conditions.
Corner Brook (N.L.) > Economic conditions.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 'The Old Order Changeth': Industrial Development at Corner Brook
  • 2 'Worth Dominating?' Industrial Development at Mount Isa
  • 3 'Praying for a Conflagration': Planned and Fringe Towns
  • 4 Collaborators, Communists, and Casanovas? Labour at Corner Brook and Mount Isa
  • 5 'If I had to get a factory job I'd be fired': Civic Life and Resident-Company Negotiation
  • 6 'Personal Relationships and Private Worlds'? Structures of Feeling in Company Towns
  • Conclusion.

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